(Photo: Richard & Carolina) Vehicle ride leaving the field Saturday, 28th of August 2013

 

Two months in the field are over and we will leave Seida this evening. We returned from the field the day before yesterday after a busy last day of packing.

 

Our equipment and basically everything we need for the field season had to be transported back to Seida village for winter storage.

 

So we had a fully loaded tundra vehicle that carried us back to Seida on Tuesday evening.

For the last days in the field we were a group of five people (Christina, Tanya, Richard, Igor and Carolina) and we will all travel back to Finland together, which makes it easier to carry our entire luggage, including many samples.

 

(Photo: Richard and Carolina) Tundra skies - photo taken by PetrWe are very happy with the way our field season has gone this summer, but we will only start talking about a successful field season once we have (hopefully!) managed to get all our samples across the border back to Finland, which is always a bit risky.

 

We count on Richard to attract all attention and distract the border guards, for after two months in Tundra he is looking like a terrorist and additionally smuggling a reindeer fur (and booze) to Finland.

So, the next three nights we will spend on the train, watching some movies, with a few hours' break in Moscow, where we are all planning to enjoy a hearty meal in a restaurant.